Also, I just found out that there is a Jon Irving book I haven't read!
Oh, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is also travel themed
River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems. Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Sophia Brooks - Jun 16, 2011 1:27:52 pm PDT #15339 of 28289
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
dcp - Jun 16, 2011 1:31:48 pm PDT #15340 of 28289
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
...Deadline. But i has a complaint. A kvetch, if you would.
My take on that was that the reader was supposed to think "What the fuck?!" and thus Georgia's "What the fuck is going on here?" is meant to be an echo of that. I'm certainly looking forward to seeing how cleverly that question gets answered in the next book.
My own primary complaint is that no one seemed to regret or even have qualms over deceiving their audience with false blog posts. The necessity is clear, but no one seemed to mind, or care what it would do to their credibility if they ever got to the point where they could go public with the story.
Toddson - Jun 16, 2011 1:36:19 pm PDT #15341 of 28289
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In Deadline, did anyone else notice that at one point Georgia's death date is given as 2032; Feed takes place in 2040. I'm wondering if it'll turn out that there's a technique for transferring memories from an original body to a clone. As well as growing a clone to adulthood quickly.
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2011 1:41:47 pm PDT #15342 of 28289
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Toddson, I think that may be an error. I noticed an error in one of the blog post dates, too. The date of the Rising got moved during the editing process, and I think there was an incorrect date or two in Feed as well.
Toddson - Jun 16, 2011 1:42:52 pm PDT #15343 of 28289
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
huh ... thought it might be a clue as to what was going on. Well ... she needs to get the third book out ASAP.
megan walker - Jun 16, 2011 1:46:40 pm PDT #15344 of 28289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Sorry, I should have specified fiction, but not fictional places.
Dana - Jun 16, 2011 1:49:10 pm PDT #15345 of 28289
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The Accidental Tourist?
dcp - Jun 16, 2011 1:49:32 pm PDT #15346 of 28289
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
suggestions for fiction that is about travel?
Huckleberry Finn
Kim
megan walker - Jun 16, 2011 2:06:18 pm PDT #15347 of 28289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
John Irving's Until I Find You
Yes, this is the type of thing I'm looking for. The theme doesn't have to focus on traveling, but the story needs to involve traveling to more than one place, or be an extended journey, i.e., I'm not really interested in the type of thing that involves someone moving to Tuscany and settling in. I'm hoping the discussion will involve how non-fiction travel writing compares to fiction about travel.
megan walker - Jun 16, 2011 2:17:47 pm PDT #15348 of 28289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
For the record, the non-fiction I'm considering putting on the list includes the following works. The problem will be keeping the list under 30, so anything here you that you think is really amazing, or not quite worth the time, would be good to know.
Almost definitely these, since they have an average rating of 4 or above on Goodreads:
Arabian Sands
(Wilfred Thesiger)
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
(Laurie Lee)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
(Rebecca West)
Confederates in the Attic
(Tony Horwitz)
Danube
(Claudio Magris)
In a Sunburned Country
(Bill Bryson)
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
(Thor Hyerdahl)
Labels
(Evelyn Waugh)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
(Eric Newby)
The Snow Leopard
(Peter Matthiessen)
A Time of Gifts
(Patrick Leigh Fermor)
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
(John Steinbeck)
Venice
(Jan Morris)
These were all in the 3.5-4.0 range on Goodreads and many were on “best of” lists:
Among the Russians
(Colin Thubron)
Finding George Orwell in Burma
(Emma Larkin)
The Great Railway Bazaar
(Paul Theroux)
In Patagonia
(Bruce Chatwin)
Into the Wild
(Jon Krakauer)
The Journals of Captain Cook
(James Cook)
The Road to Oxiana
(Robert Byron)
The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels
(Freya Stark)
The Sex Life of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
(J. Maarten Troost)
Video Night in Katmandu
(Pico Iyer)
A Yank Back to England
(Denis Lipman)